Are you really angry? The effect of intensity on facial emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 502-514

  Kumfor, Fiona ^a,b   Miller, Laurie ^c,d   Lah, Suncica ^d   Hsieh, Sharpley ^a,b   Savage, Sharon ^a   Hodges, John R ^a,b   Piguet, Olivier ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioral variant FTD; Caricatures; Progressive nonfluent aphasia; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION;

AGED; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84857407646     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2011.620779     Document Type: Article

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